MPX5077018: The Lion Who Just Cant Change His Spots: Johnny is a mixed up cat. He is not really a lion, not really a leopard. He is a cross bread - a leopon. His name comes from his mothers side of the family. She is a lioness called Sonoko. His spots come from his leopard father, Kanbo. The leopard lives at a zoo in Kobe, Japan. Circa 1960 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5077130: Dawson's Field Hostages are freed and planes are blown up. The ordeal for many of the hostages, held by Palestinian guerillas after their aircraft were hijacked, ended when they were taken off the planes where they had been held captive at "Revolution Airport" in the Jordan desert. Although fifty-four of the hostages are still being held in secret hide cuts in Amman, the majority of them have returned to their home countries. After the passengers were taken off the aircraft - a British VC-10, an American Boeing 707 and a Swiss DC-8 - the planes were dynamited by the guerillas, The wreckage of the three airliners, blown up by the guerillas in the Jordanian desert. September 1970 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078208: Agriculture Harvesting: Two days of sun and wind have dried out the corn crop sufficiently for threshing. At the first sign of the sun farmers and their men, many on "extended leave" from the Forces, went into the fields in an effort to save the harvest. A threshing crew working hard to get the grain out before more rain falls. September 1946 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078232: They Have Chosen Farming As A Career: There are a number of girls taking the 12 months course in farming and horticulture at the Surrey County Council Farm Institute at Merrist Wood, near Guildford. 45 students, men and girls, on the 430 acre farm are learning milk production, cattle management, vet science, botany, zoology, bee keeping. Mary Coleridge of Wimbledon and Judy Hitchcock of Tollworth are very masterful with the calf Tulip II whom they are "drenching" administering a tonic. June 1949 / Bridgeman Images
MPX5078271: Disaster Blast at Flixborough: A massive blast ripped apart on entire village late on Saturday afternoon, Ist June 1974. At least 29 people died and 100 houses were wrecked when an explosion shook the Nypro chemical plant at the Lincolnshire village of Flixborough. 3,000 people were evacuated as firemen tried to prevent an escape of poisonous gas from ammonia tanks, seven miles away in Scunthorpe flying glass caused injuries and homes shook thirty miles away. The scene of devastation at Nypro works, Flixborough. June 1974 / Bridgeman Images